Title
Joint resolution authorizing the execution of a master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Deerfield regarding the energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control signals and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
Staff Summary
· Traffic Signal Master Agreement, Lake County PASSAGE: Village of Deerfield
· The Village of Deerfield operates and has jurisdiction over certain traffic control signals within its corporate boundaries.
· In the spring of 2011, the LCDOT will have underway a project to interconnect all traffic signals in the Village of Deerfield with Lake County PASSAGE.
· The Village of Deerfield and Lake County wish to enter an agreement stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains and operates, through Lake County PASSAGE, traffic signals on the county highway system;
WHEREAS, the Village of Deerfield operates and has jurisdiction over certain traffic control signals within its corporate boundaries; and
WHEREAS, in the spring of 2011, the LCDOT will have underway a project to interconnect all traffic signals in the Village of Deerfield with Lake County PASSAGE, and
WHEREAS, the effective operation of Village owned traffic control signals through Lake County PASSAGE is beneficial to the safety and welfare of the Village and the County as a whole, and;
WHEREAS, Lake County and the Village of Deerfield are desirous of entering into an agreement stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE, a draft copy of said agreement is attached hereto
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, that the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County, Illinois, be authorized, and they are hereby directed to execute a master agreement, and any subsequent amendments thereto, with the Village of Deerfield stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE. The County Engineer shall transmit in writing the final agreement to be executed by the Chair of the Lake County Board and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer of Lake County is hereby authorized to include within the above-said master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Deerfield additional traffic control signals, as may be warranted from time-to-time, and that are within the jurisdiction of Village of Deerfield in accordance with said master agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the above-said master agreement takes the place of and supersedes all prior agreements between the Village of Deerfield and Lake County relative to energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County Passage.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 11, 2011.